Reg Exp - Case change of text

[Anon]

I am manipulating strings,the strings arrive in uppercase. At present for Names and Address I am using the ucwords function. However, I have a lot of French and Scottish names to deal with. The french names I simply use a str_replace. But Scottish names such as McKenzie, MacDonald and MacKinty require a bigger function, I think?!

How do I look for Mckenzie, as it would be set after ucwords, and correct it to McKenzie ..

Thanks,

Phil

[Anon]

I'm not a regex expert but you should be able to do something like this:

"Mc[a-zA-Z]" to determine if the name is a Mc
"Mac[a-zA-Z" to determinr if the name is a Mac

Then just use substr to pull the first and second parts and ucwords each half and put them back together.

[Anon]

I have solved this problem, and now have another! Capitalising first letters following a punctuation, ignoring white space but still retaining it. IDEAS??

Final Code for macdonald >> MacDonald is (Note very little Reg Exp):

$const_w = array("Mac","Mc","D'","D`", "-the-", "-by-", "-on-");
GLOBAL $const_w;
$final = "";

$string = "OLD MACDONALD MACDONALD. FROM MAC A FARM DE LA SOUL MC LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT FUNKY DEMMACARNOLD MCTAVISH BIG MAC MEAL APPLE MACINTOSH BURGERMC BROMACTHER D'ARCY D`ARTY" ;
$string = ucwords(strtolower($string)) ;

$arr = split(" ",trim(ucwords($string)));

for ($i=0;$i<count($arr);$i++)
{
for ($x=0;$x<count($const_w);$x++)
if (ereg($const_w[$x],$arr[$i]))
{
$temp = explode($const_w[$x], $arr[$i]) ;
$final = $temp[0].$const_w[$x].ucwords($temp[1]) ;
$string = str_replace($arr[$i], $final, $string) ;
break ;
}

}